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 just completed his Greek Lexicon, and will send it to Anselm * for the next fair; Setzer" has made this possible by letting Philip have the time he had intended to give to a medical work. Dr. John Bugenhagen,* who is kcturing here, has mar- ried an honest Wittenberg girl. Wetzsteiner * of Nuremberg, who was with Martin at the Diet of Worms, has also taken a wife. It is rumored that Erasmus is about to write against Martin. I hear that Martin has said of him that even though Erasmus may fall away from the doctrine of Christ, never- theless he has no doubt he will come to himself and to a right opinion about that doctrine. Heretofore he has excelled only as a teacher of the law, and in this sphere the purest and most elegant writer among our countrymen. . ..

Yours, Felix Ulscenius.

553. LUTHER TO AN UNNAMED CORRESPONDENT. DeWette, ii, 242. German. WmENBERc, August 28, 1522.

Grace and peace in Christ. I received your letter, my good friend, by the liberated Daniel,* and am glad that the

^Possibly Thomas Anselm, the Hagenau printer, though the last work from his press bears the date 1521.

died I $32. For his life vide ADB.
 * John Setxer (Secerius), Anselm's successor in the business at Hagenau. He

'John Bugenhagen (Dr. Pomeranus), born at Wollin, June 24, 1485; studied at Grief swald (1502-04), teaclier in Treptow (1504-17); head of the monastic school at Belbuk (1517-21). Going to Wittenberg (matriculated April 29, 1521) on the invitation of his friend, Peter Swaven, he was almost immediately engaged as lecturer at the university, though without official appointment. He became pastor of the City Church in 1523 and received a regular professorship in XS3S« From 1525 to 1543 he was frequently absent from Wittenberg under apecial commission to organize evangelical churches in lands that had received the Refor- mation (Brunswick, 1528, May to October; Hamburg, October, 1528 to June, 1529; Lubeck, October, 1 529-1 532; Pomerania, 1 534-1 535; Denmark, on the invt- tation of the king, 1 536-1 539; Brunswick again, i539-i543)> From 1543 till his death he was active in Wittenberg as preacher and professor. He was one of I«uther*s intimate friends (with Melanchthon, Jonas and Amsdorf) and officiated at his wedding (1525) and his funeral. His literary contributions to the Refor- mation were large (translation of Luther's New Testament into Low German; assistance with the revision of Luther's Bible; many tracts on theological aubjects), but his greatest services were rendered in the field of practical reform (church organization and worship). His letters edited by O. Vogt (Stettin, 1888); oest biography by H. Hering (Halle, 1888). This report of his marriage is incorrect, for he was not married until October 23, (Hering op, eit, p. 29); it is probably his betrothal that is meant.


 * Petzensteiner.

■Probably Probst, who had escaped persecution like a aecond Daniel, and had come to Wittenberg. In that case Luther's correspondent must have been one of Luther's friends in the Netherlands; but cf. Weimar, x*, p. 178, n. 2.

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